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...Muslim - or even male practitioner of Islam - claim to have a stake in this debate without having ever walked a mile in someone else's hijab? In a modern and open-minded world comfortable with self-indulgent fashion preferences, permanent "body art", or cosmetic surgery, isn't there something particularly inappropriate to heated public rowing over someone else's notion of modesty? Fundamentalism is deserving of criticism, we can all agree - but that should extend to the "progressive" fundamentalism driving the campaign against the veil...
Kravitz published another study on fruit fly behavior earlier this month, which pitted male flies against each other in fights. The study, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that fruit flies can remember the outcomes of previous battles and that those memories influence their fighting mentality...
Unlike the study on male and female fruit fly aggression, this study may hold relevance for humans. The research, Kravitz said, could help improve psychiatric models on depression and feelings of resignation...
...nation’s most respected evangelical leaders, president of the 30 million strong National Association of Evangelicals, and one of the country’s most outspoken critics of homosexuality, seems to have been fibbing. In particular, he sparked some confusion late last month when a former male escort, Mike Jones of Denver, accused Haggard of having solicited sexual relations and narcotics from him multiple times over a three year period. Haggard, after a bit of denial, some nervous laughter and a few calls of “election year politics,” then publicly admitted that...
...debate about what we should think about homosexual activity—it’s written in the Bible.” He makes a pretty compelling point. But one imagines that even the closest, most devout reading of the Good Book will not yield any loopholes concerning outspoken male prostitutes. So, either we’re reading Leviticus wrong, or it might be time for some debate...